[SahAssar]

Sure, but that is worrying from a privacy perspective. For any other venture their value is their current installed base so they will probably try to use that either via bundling (as might have been the case here) or via cross-marketing (which is usually not privacy-friendly).

Either way I think a privacy-focused company not making enough money to survive on their (hopefully privacy-focused) products is not a good thing. Brave has been going through this for quite some time with BAT and crypto ads, mozilla has been going through it even longer with bloating expenses and google income.